A Field Of Greens: Gourmet African Slow Cooker Soups And Stews [Paperback]

Ivy Newton-Gamble (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

Quick and easy slow cooker meals are not usually associated with gourmet African cuisine. With over 80 simple recipes vegans, vegetarians and meat lovers alike can enjoy a trip to Africa from the comforts of home. From all over Africa A Field of Greens helps you create recipes that are wholesome, tasty and healthy. All the recipes in this book have been adapted for the slow cooker and the directions are simple and the recipes convenient, familiar and delicious. Most recipes are heart healthy and diabetic friendly. Several recipes are also inexpensive allowing you to stretch your family food dollar. Besides wonderful recipes, I have also created this cookbook so that it will be as inviting just to sit down with and read just as well as being used for everyday cooking. Learn simple everyday African words with A Field of Greens African languages 101 lessons. Broaden your mind and discover African cooking with A Field of Greens.

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About the Author

Ivy Newton-Gamble is a graduate of Florida A & M University earning a B.A. in Sociology. She is also an avid reader and traveler fascinated by people and African cultural traditions. She currently lives in Florida tending to her garden of organically grown fruits and vegetables and is also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace; 1st edition (October 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440407673
• ISBN-13: 978-1440407673
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and worth the effort, December 11, 2009

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Yiayia "kaybet" (Modesto, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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I bought this book as a gift for my granddaughter who spent four months living in Kenya as part of her International Studies major. She loves the Kenyans and especially the family with whom she lived, and as she is also a pretty good cook, I know that she will try the recipes.

Were I writing this book I would have formatted it somewhat differently (so what else is new?), but it is an interesting read, and many of the recipes look delicious. I, myself, love Ethiopian cuisine because of the spices. I am always open to new foods that do not include rather too esoteric items (brains, eyeballs, insects and peculiar sea life), so this book really fills the bill. It has excellent vegetarian recipes many of which I will copy before I gift the book to her. In addition, there is quite a lot of interesting information about the various areas of the African continent and the people who live therein. That makes it a double bargain.

I am sure that she will enjoy this, and I will ask her to write a review when she has actually tried some recipes.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A field of Greens, July 6, 2009

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A very interesting cookbook. Looks like a great bunch of recipes to try although I haven't yet. I am vegetarian, so it is nice to see some vegetarian recipes and some that can be altered to be vegetarian. Tasty unusual spices.